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10 Critical Considerations In Selecting Retail And Direct Business Intelligence Solutions
January 20, 2010
•Guest Column: 10 Critical Considerations In Selecting Retail And Direct Business Intelligence Solutions
By Curt Barry, President, F. Curtis Barry & Company
Your senior management just read you the riot act about the company's proliferation of systems and the lack of data integrity in those systems. "We have the same data—like sales and inventory—in different systems, with different timing and accuracy. Between our order management, warehouse management and forecasting systems, there is no single version of the truth. We are no longer in touch with the data, and the department managers are analyzing performance in different ways and getting different results—even though they are using the same data! No one system gives us more than 25% of the data we need to plan and manage the business. And we aren't even users of the major business systems."
They have given you 30 days to come up with a plan to eliminate this confusion and deal with these realities.
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